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mister president, welcome to the white house, welcome back to the oval office. >> thank you. >> president biden: before you came in when i was a senator 180 years ago, fought very hard for admission to nato and exceeded every expectation. 20 years ago, our nations have grown closer in my view, closer and closer together. romania and american troops serving side-by-side across nato including in your country, 1800 american forces there, thank you for that. i want to thank you, mr.

president, for your leadership in the black sea. and the help you provided for ukraine is significant. unified support for people who create the number of refugees that come across in your country. also your security assistance with ukraine and the united states is committed to standing with you. today we lay the foundation for the next 20 years and look forward to discussions, we've got a lot to discuss. >> thank you very much, mister president. thank you for making this meeting possible.

i believe it is timely and you are absolutely right. we have a lot of issues. let me just start by saying we managed not only to be members of nato thanks to you and others who fought for 20 years since romania is a proud member of nato but also managed to work on our bilateral relationship which became stronger and stronger, by making this partnership, we managed to make the transatlantic link stronger and the cornerstone, democratic way, with life, values, this is

linked to the way of the future of the nations, the way we manage, and to work better, live better, how we managed to guarantee the security of our people, how we managed to make our economies grow, so we have really a lot of issues. we can discuss, it is important to manage to move ahead and have positive results. and we will discuss things we still have to achieve so maybe

just an example, we are working together on a visa waiver for romania that goes well hopefully. unfortunately, the most important issue is to find a way to reinstall peace and helping ukraine sets a huge example how this can be done. romania is trying its best and we have some pretty good results but nevertheless, we have to find ways to prevent russia to win this war in ukraine and we have to stay united, work together, and we will, as far as i can see. a lot of issues.

>> president biden: i don't think there's any nato partner with a historic commitment to the euro atlantic alliance than romania and the united states. it is a value set. it is what we believe. you have stepped up and been incredible, and we are going to continue together. it is going to be significant for europe and for the whole world. >> thank you. [shouting] [shouting] ♪♪

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